Typical Christmas Day

[Eve]

What's yours...

[Eve]

Wake up after a lovely long sleep (never sleep so well as when i'm at my parents back in the country).

Sneak out in freezing cold in jimjams for crafty cig behind greenhouse, get sprayed liberally with air freshener by mum, ask for a nagging reprieve as it's Christmas. Usually have a hug as mum says how much she�s not in the mood for Christmas.

Cuddle cats, make tea then crash on parents bed while we open our stockings, parents cottoned on a while a go they should get them too!

Get up, brekkie, put fire on (well try and give up!) then open prezzies. Call from brother who was b*ggered off somewhere better.

Help mum with dinner stress as she gets ratty, put carols from Kings on to chill her out, noggin of sherry or two ;). Play marriage guidance counsellor to parents i.e. act as go between.

Have dinner then watch TOTP Christmas Special then out to my aunts. Play with little cousins, exchange prezzies, have a fab buffet. Get quite tipsy as uncle keeps filling up wine glass. Lots of sneaking out the back door for a crafty cig!

Home and out for a walk round the village with mum, preferably in the snow avoiding scallies with snowballs. Watch a film, dad usually brings a projector home so watch it cinema style, with a whiskey and ginger or vodka lemonade and lime and some treat snacks :)

[boro1986]

I love christmas not for me im 29 so no santa claus for me but to see my neice and nephew open their presents its just so nice. i go round my parents at about 6 and my brother brings his wife and kids open all our presents. All the men in the family meet up in the local pub at twelve (we are not sexist most of the wives chase them out so they can get on with lunch) We stay at the pub till 3 go home have christmas dinner all 10 of us. Me and my 3 brothers do all the washing up/ cleaning etc then we all sit down and watch tv. At about 7 my mam will prepare a little buffet and we have drinks and a laugh till late. Its been like this for as long as i remember but i wouldn't change a thing.

[crete]

this is an ideal question for the christmas site,

[4getmenot]

Tis indeed Crete so why don�t you try :-)
Basically I wake up in my flat on my own and shake my head to see how bad the hangover is, then get up go to mums down the road, and open pressies then wait bored till lunch coz now I�m older there�s no toys to play with in morning, although this year my nephew will be there so I can play with his :-) then have the best lunch ever, then after play a board game with family. When all that�s finished I go home for the evening and get all my mates round for a xmas drink. :-)

[noxlumos]

Come back from Midnight Mass,finish wrapping presents whist drinking a bottle of something meant for the next day, take a bite out of Santa's mince pie and drink his sherry so the littlies think he's "been".Put presents into stockings and beneath tree in the lounge.Hide the surprise presents round the house.Go to bed about 3.00am. Get woken up by Ciaran (4) at about 7.00am. The whole family and any visitors and friends are all woken up and we all stampede downstairs together to the lounge to "watch" the little ones opening their pressies.Someone will stick breakfast on at this point ( proper fry up) and we'll all eat that. Dad's and brothers and uncles and grandad's then help kids assemble and play with toys whilst women, girls, girlsfriends etc, organise lunch.Lunch set on to cook, we all go to the park with the kids, come back have lunch. Everyone plays with the kids or does their own thing. Evening, take the ladies out as a thank you for the lunch etc and all they do at other times and often a very late game of hide and seek if the kids are still up.Everyone drinks and eats too much, plays daft games and generally just chills out. There is a bit of maneouvering to keep my wife and mother at a distance but other than that it's generally quite pleasant.

[Athley]

Will they have the TOTP Christmas special this year though Jenna as it was axed. What a shame if not its a tradition and probably more people watch it than the Queen's speech.

[Eve]

Awwww no :( Maybe they'll do a special one!!!

[loobie]

Don't worry guys, there is gonna be an Xmas top of the pops!!!

[4getmenot]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeegggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!

[4getmenot]

Oh my god I fell off the end :-)

[Athley]

Hope so!!!

We alternate Christmas Day and Boxing Day each year between our house and my mum and dads. Its my house for C Day this year. Usually get up have a nice breakfast with husband. My parents come over and we open presents together with some champagne. Then we go to visit my nan in the nursing home and usually stay there for a few hours helping out with people who need feeding as it gets pretty busy over there and open presents with my nan.

Then home for a late lunch - we never know what time it will be ready. My dad always falls asleep with his paper hat on on the sofa in the dining room and we sit around chatting and watching TV. Usually eating huge amounts of Cadburys Roses.

Sometimes go into the neighbours in the evening for a Christmas drink or two!!

[Athley]

4getmenot - I didn't mean I hope so to you falling off the end - I was talking about TOTP! Sorry my bit came after yours. he he

[4getmenot]

No worries, Ha Ha, that did follow my answer quite well, woops :-)

[Miss Inquiry]

Being 1/2 Polish we celbrate Xmas on the 24th, so my Xmas is ram packed with tradition and family stuff. As soon as the first star is out we start our 12 course meal (it has to be vegetarian traditionally - my poor mum!!) and there has to be 1 extra place at the table for an uninvited guest, and hay under the table cloth to symbolise the stable. Inbetween each couse there is a shot of vodka, and by the end your really full and very drunk. Each course is pretty small tho so you don't die round the table. When desert starts the kids grab all the presents from under the tree and distrbute them whilst the adults drink more and rest. At midnight everyone gets dragged to midnight mass, normally quite drunk, you get home again, drink some more and then hit the hay. In the morning I generally have trouble remembering what presents I got so it's like opening them all again. For actual Xmas day I generally go to my bf's house, and have a traditional English xmas with his family, luckily I will never have the trouble of who's house to go to for Xmas...Perfect.

[whiskeysheri]

I still get up at 5am and go and wake my brother and sister. We all sit on the landing and open our stockings (we've never been allowed to go and wake my mum for presents before 6!). My sister is staying this time with my 23 month old niece, and she's a little nutter so I can't wait.

We have to queue in order of age on the stairs (never really been sure why) while we wait for everyone, there's never really much point because everyone pretty much races to the tree anyway! :o)

All the presents are opened which usually takes a good couple of hours. There's one person who hands them out one at a time and we all have to sit and watch their face, LOL!

After that, we have a breakfast of a fry-up or prawn sandwiches (don't ask how that tradition came about!) usually followed by a selection box.

The morning is spent playing and fiddling with all our new stuff and helping my mum to cook. Then my grandma; grandad; dad; his girlfriend; my nan and the rest of my mum's boyfriend's family pile 'round for dinner.

The rest of the day is followed by countless more presents, bin bags full of wrapping paper, everyone still in paper hats, a hu-u-uge buffet and some big tins of Roses and Quality Street shared about.

I love Christmas! :o))

[crete]

interesting to see the amount of posts who mention going to church on xmas day,

[sunnyday2d]

my wife and i used to have our parents, our two sons
for christmas dinner, a very happy time.
in the last 2 yrs we have lost our parents, one of my sons
has moved to the other end of the country, my other sons
marriage broke up, he is dissabled, his ex wife has moved out of the vicinity with her new man, she will not answer the
phone when he wants to see his children, he has not seen them in 12 months, she also denies us as grandparents
any access to our grand children .
so christmas is a time we dread.

[crete]

sunny im sorry to read your post, it must be very difficult for you.